I'd say that state is actually easier to handle in functional languages. You just need the right abstractions for it. I've been working with Phoenix lately, wh

I'd say that state is actually easier to handle in functional languages. You just need the right abstractions for it. I've been working with Phoenix lately, which basically just hands request/response details down a pipe of functions, which all can change the state of the response. There can be a lot of state contained in this response, but when you use Phoenix, you don't really notice it. The abstraction makes everything seamless - best web-framework I've used to date.